Improvement in milk-coolers



llllllll lli ninna sont @met @tipifica T o all jwlwm tit may concern Be it known that L'RUFUS D. GARDNER, of \Vater-.

1t consists in hinging together the two pausbe tween which the milk is cooled, and providing' the inner pan with a pivoted bar orarm, whereby said pau is adapted to be swung 'up and supported in a raised position, for the purpose of presenting its bottom to be cleaned, and to afford ready accessto the interior of the outer pan; also, in the arrangement of spouts, by which the milk is poured between the pans, and the water or cooling-liquid around the outer pan.

yFigure l represents a longitudinal sectional eleva-ll tion, and

Figure 2, an end elevation of my improved apparatus. v l

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a vat, -of wood or other substance, preferably supported on legs.

B represents a sheetmietal vat, arranged 4within the rat A, so as to form a space between the surfaces of the two, and in the said vat B another one, G,vis simiarly arranged, and hinged to the upperedge of the rst. i

RUFUS'` D.y GARDNER, or WATER'IOWN, NEW YORK.

' 13mm Patent N 91,928, dma Jua@ 29,1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN MILK-COOLERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same4 Funnels D and E are provided to communicate re'- spectively with the spaces on each side of the vat B, and a faucet, F, leading from within the vat B, is pro.

willed.

The vats A and C are filled with water or other cooling-medium, and the milk to be cooled poured into the vat B, and allowed to tlow through the same in contact with the shells ot therats B and C, which, being cooled by the water 0r other cooling-medium on their opposite sides, rapidly extract the `heat from'the milk.

' The vat G is hinged to the vat A, and the bar Gis pivoted to it, and arranged to hold it in a raised position, 'as shown in fig. 2, whereby ready access is permitted to the interior of the pan B for cleaning, and to the bottom ofthepan C, for a like purpose.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of the pans B and C', when the latter is hinged to the edge ofthe former, and adapted to swing up and be supported in a raised position by the pivoted bar G, as herein described, for the purpose specified.

2. ln combination with the above, the 'funnelsD E, when arranged with relation to the pans B C and rat A, as described, for the purpose of directing the milk between the pans and the cooling-liquid around-the outer pan, as herein set forth and shown.

RUFUS D. GARDNER.

Witnesses:

GHANnLEn C. CHASE, SCHUYLER S. GARDNER. 

